Electronics

Continuous fiber thermoplastics are smart for world’s largest appliance manufacturer

Haier uses Covestro CFRTP in Casarte line of “smart” air conditioners

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Aerospace

Airborne, Siemens and SABIC partner to mass produce thermoplastic composites

Flexible, automated production lines, featuring radically low conversion costs, aimed at millions of parts/yr — CW’s interview with all three companies.

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Wind/Energy

New consortium studies energy storage

With a kick-off on January 30, 2018, AZL Aachen GmbH (Aachen, Germany), in cooperation with 19 participating companies as well as RWTH Aachen University and RWTH spinoff company CONBILITY GmbH (Aachen, Germany), has launched an international market and technology study.

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Electronics

Ultrathin sandwich panels come to market

These 0.2-mm-thick carbon fiber/foam sandwich structures have been developed by North Thin Ply Technology and 4a manufacturing.

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Carbon Fibers

Modular racking system expedites delivery

Bionic design and anisotropic elements enable this modular racking system concept to fulfill last-mile delivery goals.

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Aerospace

Making composite parts from 3D printed paper molds

Honda made autoclave-capable molds at one-tenth the cost of CNC-machined metal using Mcor's SDL technology.

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Electronics

Overmolding for automotive

Surface Generation (Rutland, UK) has started work on an 18-month research and development project to produce affordable, lightweight carbon fiber components for the automotive industry.

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Pixelated temperature control

Surface Generation is providing digital process control for composites molding that cuts energy use, cycle time and processing pressures while breaking boundaries in thickness, complexity and embedded elements.

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Curing

JEC World 2016, the full report

ÂÌñÏׯÞ's editors report on the technologies and products that caught our eye at JEC World 2016, in early March.

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Automotive

Green resins: Closer to maturity

As more players approach the market, R&D expands, but overall market growth in the composites arena is still slow but steady.

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microwire technology for composites
microwire technology for composites